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There should be more philanderers and alcoholics in Westminster, if you
believe Gawain Towler, UKIP’s press supremo, or at least a greater tolerance
for those who do stray. At the Prospect summer party, he explained:
“A lot of people shag around and drink and so on, so why do we think
politicians should be morally better? It deprives politics of life and
energy. If they’ve got drive in that direction, they’ll probably have drive
in other directions.” Which makes UKIP’s recruitment policy sound rather
like the Spaghetti Junction of morality.

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